Rick Lazio fired back at Steve Levy at a press conference earlier today, taking shots at the Democrat-becoming-Republican who is set to announce he’s running for governor tomorrow.

I’m very confident that I’m going to be the nominee of the Conservative Party and the Republican Party,” Lazio said, adding that his record is “consistency and reliability” versus “somebody who’s giong to put their finger up to the wind, see the way things are going, and then decide.”

He closely repeated. “I think when people look at the two candidates, they’re going to see one that has a record of consistency and reliability and one that makes commitments, and I think the gravity of the problem that we have right now, the depth of these issues — people are looking for somebody they can depend on. Not somebody who’s going to put their finger up to the wind, see the way things are going, and then decide.”

He described Levy as “somebody who’s been a Democrat for his whole life,” and added, “I think that many people are calling it rank opportunism is probably a fair assessment.”